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Re: old custom vans

Postby Neil » Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:53 pm

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Re: old custom vans

Postby transitandy » Mon Dec 29, 2014 10:34 pm

Any news on the book peter :?:
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Re: old custom vans

Postby petervanlee » Tue Dec 30, 2014 1:29 pm

I have finished it twice, only to find some new people that have given me info and picture's i could not leave out…. I have now tracked the story back to 1958 amazingly and with it an amazing picture of the whole design and engineering team from 1961… It has been a two year trip that started out being only One year……. I had 5,000 press packs and bits on news paper articles and books. That has now muchroomed to 11,000, that to the generosity of the people I interviewed. Peter
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Re: old custom vans

Postby RustWidow » Tue Dec 30, 2014 10:15 pm

Wow, well done! Will we be able to buy the book?
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Re: old custom vans

Postby petervanlee » Tue Dec 30, 2014 11:53 pm

Maybe in April.. One last interveiw to do…. then i can have my life back… GRIN
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Re: old custom vans

Postby Andy P » Wed Dec 31, 2014 2:55 am

wow memories are flooding back to me, the Van shop in Roman Road Bethnal Green E2, forgot all about that shop till now, I am now desperate to find a pic of this mega wheeled transit I knew of from the 80s from north London, I have someone looking for a pic of it that he had. I was into escort vans then and still was till a couple of years ago,
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Re: old custom vans

Postby Vandalism » Wed Dec 31, 2014 12:01 pm

can you remember much else about the transit? might jog somones memmories mods/wheels ect
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Re: old custom vans

Postby petervanlee » Wed Dec 31, 2014 6:00 pm

Need to know more about it really
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Re: old custom vans

Postby Andy P » Wed Dec 31, 2014 6:16 pm

it was white, wind turbines on the roof at the back, BIG wolfrace wheels with general grabbers, my mate is saying 6 wheels but I am sure he changed it to 8 wheels I could be wrong on that bit and I remember red air horns on the roof as well. it lived in amhurst park Stamford hill London N16, I am talking about 1980 ish
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Re: old custom vans

Postby captain hook » Wed Dec 31, 2014 11:40 pm

petervanlee wrote:Need to know more about it really

What would you like to know?

I helped building it 8)
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Re: old custom vans

Postby Vandalism » Thu Jan 01, 2015 1:47 pm

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh17 ... img092.jpg

found this odd looking think whilst searching this thred - http://www.rodsnsods.co.uk/forum/histor ... int/page28

havnt looked through the whole thred to see what other vans are in there yet
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Re: old custom vans

Postby captain hook » Thu Jan 01, 2015 5:05 pm

Well done Lewis...Never thought any pics survived 8)

Just took me back to 1979 :lol:
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Re: old custom vans

Postby Neil » Thu Jan 01, 2015 8:38 pm

theres an interest growing in custom vans the revival is near :lol:
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Re: old custom vans

Postby Vandalism » Thu Jan 01, 2015 9:04 pm

captain hook wrote:Well done Lewis...Never thought any pics survived 8)

Just took me back to 1979 :lol:


came across it by accident...as i usually do

"louis" :wink: :lol: :P

i still have my original van shop front spoiler somwhere, best tuck it away till the revival :lol:
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Re: old custom vans

Postby Neil » Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:04 pm

Vandalism wrote:
captain hook wrote:Well done Lewis...Never thought any pics survived 8)

Just took me back to 1979 :lol:


came across it by accident...as i usually do

"louis" :wink: :lol: :P

i still have my original van shop front spoiler somwhere, best tuck it away till the revival :lol:

or sell it to me :!:
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